Brain CancerFeaturedNeurologyNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·December 30, 2019Combining neurologic and blood pressure drugs reduces breast tumor developmentCombining medications used to treat neurological disorders, such as epilepsy and migraines, with blood pressure medications reversed some aspects of breast cancer in mice at high risk of developing the disease due to the high-fat diets fed to their mothers during pregnancy. Read More
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